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Roger Siviter
DIESELS
This series of programmes concentrates on
loco-hauled diesel action in the late 1980s
early 1990s. Roger & Christina Siviter were at
the lineside to record a time when the winds
of change for Britain’s Railways were blowing
at gale force. BR’s five business sectors
(InterCity, Provincial, Freight, Parcels and
Network South East) were paving the way for
full-scale privatisation. Locomotive haulage of
passenger trains was on the way out. New
trains in new liveries were on the way in.
OUT
NOW
Volume One – Waterloo – Exeter
& Diesels in Wessex
Relegated to a single track secondary route by the
short term economy-driven culture of the 60s,the
Waterloo-Salisbury-Exeter route has experienced
gradual increases in passenger numbers as the
boom years of the 1990s made long distance
commuting popular, demanding plenty of reliable,
fast trains to London. Class 50s displaced by HSTS
from the Great Western main line should have
been tailor made for the rival Southern Railway
route to the west. With 100mph capability, plenty
of horsepower and long range fuel tanks we
witness them at work over the entire length of
the line in their final years, inevitably bolstered
by class 47s and 33s.
Diesels in Wessex
It’s May 1990, and the Mendip stone boom is in full cry.
The majority of trains of aggregates to feed the
burgeoning Home Counties construction industry still
have class 56s in charge, but the General Motors
revolution is just beginning in the shape of Foster
Yeoman’s class 59s. this part of the programme records
not only these workings but InterCity and local trains as
well. This is followed by a look at class 47s on passenger
and mail trains in the Taunton area, and the comings and
goings around the magnificent train shed of Bristol
Temple Meads.
Vol. 1 – Waterloo –
Exeter & Wessex
Running Time 60 mins
DVD £15 4:3 Format
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